Claudio Fontana wrote: > I am looking for information about the Right Way(from > now on RW) to merge gnulib/autoconf/automake/libintl . > > While upgrading the id-utils build system with latest > gnulib modules I faced following problems: > > 1) I use gl_EARLY, gl_SOURCE_BASE, gl_M4_BASE, gl_LIB, > gl_MODULES, gl_INIT in configure.ac . However it seems > to me that the system is always building all the > modules, even though no replacements are needed. Is > this normal?
The way to use gnulib-tool has changed. You can remove the gl_SOURCE_BASE, gl_M4_BASE, gl_LIB, gl_MODULES calls from configure.ac, as they serve no purpose any more. The complete doc is in gnulib/doc/gnulib-tool.texi. I'd try "autoreconf", "make distclean" and a fresh configure, and see whether that helps. If not, then please look at the values in config.h and config.status. > 2) I have the gettext module among the others, so I > include gettext.h instead of libintl.h . > However, gettext.h includes <libintl.h>, and this > creates a problem when building on systems that miss > that header. The include of <libintl.h> in gettext.h is protected through #if ENABLE_NLS. configure should not define ENABLE_NLS on a platform without <libintl.h>, except - of course - if you used gettextize with --intl option (which is not very common nowadays). > I mean, I have it in my replacement intl/, > but being lib/* autogenerated I cannot (well should > not) edit lib/Makefile.am by hand to add the directory > to the flags. I solved by appending to CFLAGS during > configuration, Does adding CPPFLAGS += -I../lib to the Makefile.am section of gnulib/modules/gettext help? > ALL_LINGUAS="de fr nl pl" This belongs in po/LINGUAS, not in configure.ac any more. > 3) In the manual, the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro is said to > be followed by LIBS = @LIBINTL@ @LIBS@ in Makefile.in. > But with automake? I added it using LDADD, so it > should recognize the dependency. Is this the RW? Yes, if you are not using libtool, then adding @LIBINTL@ to LDADD is the right way. When using libtool, use @LTLIBINTL@ instead. The GNU gettext doc, section "`Makefile.in' in `src/'" explains this. > Please, send me links to any tutorial about > gnulib/gettext I might not have found yet (I only read > the manuals). The tutorial is now included in the gettext distribution: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gettext/gettext/gettext-tools/doc/tutorial.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html Bruno _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
